Cool and many thanks. I have an email from Spectrasonics with a special link to upgrade. Going to try it now.

Awesome. I am downloading the upgrade now. Wow! 6 hours. Sure beats waiting till next week. 

bitflipper
I'm hearing that they've addressed a common criticism, which is that Omnisphere isn't geared toward EDM. Many teenage preset-punchers will rejoice, but this is not particularly great news to me. Please tell me the new sources aren't all pumping supersaws!

Well - as far as I can see there is an lot of EDM presets, but also an lot of sound sources added. The Diego Stocco sound sources are fun to play around with. As as far as I can see (but I just starting to explore that "region") not much new in the polysynth pads, choirs and so on.
 
But with an lot of new sound sources, the import possibility, improved granular, morphing wavetables and improved unison, it would surprise me if you could not create great pad sounds from scratch in an matter of minutes.
 
But I am still exploring those new possibility's. I can predict it will keep me busy for the coming day's and even weeks..
 
And Geo524.. I am glad it's sorted out for you. I took an short look at the KVR forum, and it seems an lot of people are getting their download mails now. It sure is an bumpy ride still, but at least things seem to be starting to sort out now..

Thanks JClosed. I can't wait to start exploring the new features. Especially importing audio to create new sounds. Kudos to tech support for their customer service!

Has anyone in the UK bought this? The Spectrasonics website points us to shops that will only sell boxed versions, so the wait is long and the price is high...

synkrotron
Has anyone in the UK bought this? The Spectrasonics website points us to shops that will only sell boxed versions, so the wait is long and the price is high...

 

I don't get that at all, I get this.......

The Spectrasonics Techshop Is Temporarily Closed

Due to extremely high demand, we are significantly expanding our online store bandwidth before reopening this area.
 
However, if you are trying to upgrade to Omnisphere 2, please contact us and we'd be happy to help you directly:

techshop@spectrasonics.net
 
 
 

Contact support directly and they will send you a special link to download the upgrade. 

Oh yeah, I was pleasantly surprised last night to receive an email saying that I could get the upgrade.  Kind of a busy weekend, so I still won't be able to spend much time with it, but it's installed and I added it to a track I'm trying to finish up.  Love it so far.  Nice touches on the interface changes, but it will be awhile before I can really dig in and try out some of the new features.

Got mine downloaded and spent a little time with it today. Brilliantly done once again.

I contacted support support late Friday night and got an email response within minutes.
Was surprised, thought I be waiting till Monday to get a response.
Got everything downloaded & installed.
 
Thanks Spectrasonics for the great service!
 
...Steven